FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 2009

Today is Friday, March 20, the 79th day of 2009. There are 286 days left in the year.

1815 _ Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule

1890 _ German emperor Wilhelm II fires republic's chancellor, Otto Von Bismarck

1942 _ General MacArthur vows, ``I shall return"

1944 _ Mt. Vesuvius, Italy, explodes

1952 _ 24th Academy Awards: ``American in Paris", Humphrey Bogart & Vivian Leigh win

1954 _ First newspaper vending machine used (Columbia, Pa.)

1969 _ Beatle John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar

1969 _ U.S. President Nixon proclaims he would end Vietnam war in 1970

1991 _ Michael Jackson signs $65-million, six-album deal with Sony records

1995 _ Poison Gas released in Tokyo subway 12 killed, 4,700 injured